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Canal can he expected as a result
of Israel's complaints. Israel is
convinced the U.S. knows the vio-
lation charges are true but that it
does not want to acknowledge the
fact for fear of torpedoing Secre-
tary of State William P. Rogers'
entire peace plan, sources told the
JTA. Israel will react, but the de-
gree of vehemence will depend to
'some extent on American reassur-
ances in other fields, they said.
Gen. Rabin said Tuesday night
that he had pointed out to the
Americans that the situation on the
Suez Canal would be far more
serious than before if hostilities
were to resume because of the
Egyptian violations. He declined
to comment on arms supplies from
the U.S. or to say where the Amer-
icans were conducting truce sur-
veillance flights. According to
Rabin. the American peace initia-
tive had its genesis in the worsen-
ing situation on the Suez Canal
front, which convinced the U.S.
that Israel could not hold its de-
fense line long in face of increased
Soviet intervention. In order to
prevent the situation from escalat-
ing, the U.S. made its proposal in
an effort to effect political solu-
tion, Rabin said.
Laird's Statement
Doubt of Israel Charge
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secre-
tary of Defense Melvin Laird said
that the United States would offer
"protection" to both sides during
the 90-day cease fire in the Middle
East. He said, however, that it was
"very difficult to prove or dis-
prove" Israel's charges that Egypt
violated the cease fire by moving
Russian-made SAM missiles into
the prohibited zone hours after it
went into effect.
Laird appeared on "Issues and
Answers," an ABC television net-
work program, Sunday. His offer
of "protection" implied that the
U.S. was maintaining surveillance
of both sides in the cease fire. He
said the U.S. was studying the
situation, "very carefully and very
thoroughly."
Laird hinted that the administra-
tion was impatient with Israel's
charges. He said it would serve
"no useful purpose to have a pub.
lie debate on what went on 12
hours before or 12 hours after" the
cease fire began.
A few minutes later Mr. Laird
made the statement that it was
difficult to prove missile move-
ments "up to 18 hours either side
of the cease fire." He insisted the
the United States possessed the
"best means of verification." Ask-
ed if U.S. intelligence was better
than Israeli intelligence, Laird re-
plied, "Our intelligence is better.''
25 Students Spending
Summer Learning Yiddish
NEW YORK — Twenty-five stu-
dents from the United States, Can-
ada and Mexico have been spend-
ing the summer in the intensive
study of Yiddish language and lit-
erature. This third annual Uriel
Weinreich Yiddish Language Pro-
gram is sponsored by Columbia
University in cooperation with
YIVO Center for Advanced Jewish
Studies.
The program includes three hours
of formal classroom instruction
Monday through Friday; individual
language laboratory sessions twice
a week; an afternoon program of
supplementary lectures, folk sing-
ing and visits to places of Jewish
interest three times per week; and
an average of five hours per day
of homework. The students will re-
ceive four college credits upon
completion.
Most are graduate students or
upperclassmen at universities and
colleges. There are also two high
school seniors and one college pro-
fessor in the group. Ranging from
campus radicals to Orthodox Jews,
Zionists and non-Zionists, they
were brought together by a com-
mon desire to acquaint themselves
with Yiddish culture.
He refused to comment on reports
that high altitude U-2 planes were
carrying out aerial reconnaissance
over the cease-fire zone. Asked if
the Soviet Union was performing
reconnaissance in the region, he
replied, we must "assume" they
are. Laird insisted that the "im-
portant thing is for us to move for-
ward" with negotiations. "We need
to get on now with the business of
a settlement in the Middle East,"
he said. Asked if the U.S. is send-
ing more jets to Israel, he said the
U.S. will "continue to maintain
the proper balance in the Mid
East," adding, on that "we have
made our position clear."
Disclosure by Eban:
Egypt Still Violating
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Abba Eban said Egypt
was continuing to violate the cease-
fire agreement and that Israel
lodged a complaint with Maj. Gen.
Ensio Siilaysuo, the chief of staff
of the United Nations Truce Super-
vision Organization.
The foreign minister said "a
site that had been empty on Aug.
13 was seen to be occupied by mis-
siles and auxiliary equipment."
The formal complaint to UNTSO
stated that "Work was under way
for the preparation of a number
of missiles and auxiliary equip-
ment."
Israel was reported to be de-
liberately delaying the appoint-
ment of a representative for peace
talks with the Arabs under United
Nations special envoy Gunnar V.
Jarring until action is taken to
restore the cease fire status quo
ante in the Suez Canal zone.
There is mounting consternation
over what is regarded as a less
than vigorous response by the
United States to Israel's complaint.
Minister of Tourism Moshe Kol
said the credibility of the 'U.S.
government has been called into
question by recent events.
UN Gets Israel's Complaint
of Missile Site Construction
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
Secretary General U Thant was
reported Tuesday to have received
Israel's complaint that Egypt was
continuing to construct missile
sites and to deploy weapons close
to the Suez Canal in violation of
the cease-fire standstill agreement.
The complaint had been sent Mon-
day to Maj. Gen. Ensio Siilaysuo,
chief of staff of the United Nations
Truce Supervision Organization
(UNTSO) and publicly disclosed
by Israel Foreign Minister Abba
Eban. The complaint charged that
five sites in the standstill zone,
which had been empty earlier ,
now revealed construction activity.
Spokesmen for the UN said this
was the second complaint of a
cease-fire violation Thant had re-
ceived from Israel through UNTSO.
The previous one, Aug. 12, dealt
with the firing of two shots across
the Suez Canal. Spokesmen also
stated that a third complaint had
been registered by I,s r a el but
termed that complaint "confiden-
tial."
At the same time, UN spokes-
men denied that Maj. Gen. Siil-
aysuo's trip to Egypt and speci-
fically to the Ismallia area from
where the two shots were fired
last week was in any way con-
nected with Israel's complaints
of a missile buildup within the
32-mile standstill zone. His trip
was described as merely routine
and as part of his function as
the chief of staff of UNTSO.
Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring,
the UN's special Middle East peace
negotiator, was reported "continu-
ing consultations and is working
on general problems." UN spokes-
men declined to elaborate on this
and on whether or not Dr. Jarring
is still waiting for word on the
site, time and level of negotiations
from Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Although Egypt and Jordan named
last week their respective UN
ambassadors as negotiators and
indicated that their site preference
was New York, Israel has not yet
named its negotiator and has in-
dicated that it prefers to hold
talks in Cyprus and on a minister-
ial rather than on an ambassador-
ial level. There was no confirma-
tion here regarding reports that
Dr. Jarring agrees with Israel
that the talks should be held on
a ministerial level nor that the
negotiations are being delayed be-
cause agreement on the level of
the talks has not been reached.
Spokesmen for the UN hinted
that talks could begin and even
continue if fighting resumed. They
said there was no prior condition
that a cease fire had to prevail
for talks to take place.
United States Ambassador
Charles W. Yost, they said, had
given Thant the cease-fire agree-
ment "in confidence and it is go-
ing to remain confidential." Asked
if this cease-fire agreement was
the same version as that released
last Thursday by Israel Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan, a spokes-
man said, "Dayan is a knowledg-
able person — in this case," but
declined to elaborate.
Mohamed H. el-Zayyat, Egypt's
ambassador to the UN, told news-
men Monday that Dr. Jarring ap-
peared optimistic about the pros-
pects for talks but refused to dis-
cuss Israel's charges ab6ut the
cease-fire violations. It was re-
ported, however, that he denied
these charges in his talks with Dr.
Jarring. He also met with Thant
and Yost. Dr. Muhammed H. el-
Farra, the Jordanian ambassador,
also met with Dr. Jarring and was
later reported to be returning to
Jordan Tuesday to consult with
his government. UN officials are
reluctant to offer an estimate of
when the talks might begin. Arab
delegates are reported not to have
rejected the idea of meeting on
the ministerial level but contend
that the first stage of the negoti-
ations should be conducted on the
ambassadorial level. (During his
press conference Monday. Eban
stated: "If it (the talks) will be at
the level of United Nations repre-
sentatives, then this mountain of
expectations will bring forward a
mouse. The Arab governments
must understand that this is to be
a very specific and particular oc-
casion, at which governments will
get together at a level of com-
mitment.")
ROME (JTA) — Premier Emilio
Colombo criticized the Soviet
Union's attempt to gain a foot-
hold in the Middle East as "not
the way to serve peace in that af-
flicted area."
In reply to a request by a Com-
munist Party speaker that his
government support the Arab-
Palestinian position and the idea
of an "Arab-Israeli state," Pre-
mier Colombo said: "Peace in the
Mid East cannot come by one-sided
superiority. This even the Com-
munists know, who actually de-
clared the right to existence of all
Mid East states, and thus also of
Israel."
Vatican Denies It Planned
to Ask Mid East Belligerents
discover that they therefore are
to Accept U.S. Peace Plan
ROME (JTA) — The Vatican all brothers," the Pope said.
denied reports that it had planned
an appeal to the belligerents in
the Middle East conflict to accept
the peace proposals advanced by
United States Secretary of State
William P. Rogers. While accept-
ance of the plan by Israel, Egypt
and Jordan was hailed here, a
spokesman stressed that the Vati-
can never enters into the techni-
cal aspects of international dispute
and limits itself to "admonishing
antagonists to meet and discuss
their problems is a climate of
mutual understanding."
According to reports emanating
from "usually well informed Vati-
Israeli Cellist
can circles," an appeal to Israel
and the Arab states was on the
agenda of a recent meeting chaired
by Pope Paul himself.
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The Vatican newspaper, "Osserv-
Sanctuary
atore Romano" welcomed the
cease-fire in an unsigned editorial.
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